Differences between Hamlet the Movie and the Play:
First of all, the play starts with the guards standing at the castle with Horatio. The guards and Horatio are waiting for the ghost of King Hamlet to arrive. The ghost arrives twice but doesn’t speak. They decide to tell Hamlet to see if he could speak to the ghost. The movie starts with the funeral of King Hamlet with Gertrude standing beside the coffin. Hamlet sprinkles dust over his father, the coffin is covered and Claudius puts his sword over the coffin. The director changed this part from the play because in the play they say that Hamlet came after his father’s funeral.
They were a lot of deleted lines for Ophelia during her madness making her look more like crazy. Also when Polonius and Ophelia spy on Hamlet, this is how he learns about Hamlets strange visit and about his madness vs. in the play Ophelia informs Polonius of Hamlets visit and apparent madness.
In the movie when Hamlet arrives to Ophelia’s funeral she is laying on a white bed and they pull her in to the grave. In the play she was already in the grave and Hamlet testifies his love to her.
In the movie Rosencrantz and Guildenstern appear like at the middle, different to the play were they appear almost immediately.
Before Hamlet is sent to England he passed by Fortinbras army who is headed to Poland. He can’t believe the men they are going to waste for a piece of ground. At the end of the play when Hamlet is about to die he wants Fortinbras to be the king, Fortinbras army arrives at Elsinore and find the tragedy and he claims the throne , This was not presented in the movie.
In the movie the director changes a lot of scenes he goes back and forth maybe the director thought it was easier for the audience to understand. Also he cuts some long lines from the characters and put them easier to understand because in the play they are some words difficult to understand.
Differences between Hamlet the Movie and the Play
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